The Most Beautiful Thing Ever

Subject: The Most Beautiful Thing Ever
From: George Shirley
Date: 10/26/03 5:59 AM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

Trump! My first child, born 12/28/1961.

George

Gordon wrote:

Porsche 550 Spyder with Halle Berry in the passenger seat, dressed for the
Oscars.

Beat that.


G



That is easy to beat. A Stinson stretcher bearer plane taking a badly wounded
aircrew member who can't be treated at the small hospital on our airbase to a
large hospital in London for care. Just watch the Stinson lift off with one of
your aircrew in the stretcher, clear the pattern and head for London to save
the life of one of our own. That is true beauty.

(Autocollimator) wrote:

Subject: The Most Beautiful Thing Ever
From: George Shirley
Date: 10/26/03 5:59 AM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

Trump! My first child, born 12/28/1961.

George

Gordon wrote:

Porsche 550 Spyder with Halle Berry in the passenger seat, dressed for the
Oscars.

Beat that.


G



That is easy to beat. A Stinson stretcher bearer plane taking a badly wounded
aircrew member who can't be treated at the small hospital on our airbase to a
large hospital in London for care. Just watch the Stinson lift off with one of
your aircrew in the stretcher, clear the pattern and head for London to save
the life of one of our own. That is true beauty.

Yea, really tugs at the heartstrings! Gosh.

Grantland

Subject: The Most Beautiful Thing Ever
From: (Autocollimator)
Date: 10/26/03 11:08 AM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

Subject: The Most Beautiful Thing Ever
From: George Shirley
Date: 10/26/03 5:59 AM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

Trump! My first child, born 12/28/1961.

George

Gordon wrote:

Porsche 550 Spyder with Halle Berry in the passenger seat, dressed for the
Oscars.

Beat that.


G



That is easy to beat. A Stinson stretcher bearer plane taking a badly
wounded
aircrew member who can't be treated at the small hospital on our airbase to a
large hospital in London for care. Just watch the Stinson lift off with one
of
your aircrew in the stretcher, clear the pattern and head for London to save
the life of one of our own. That is true beauty.



Sounds like you have some military WW II flying experience. Were you aircrew
or a paddlefoot? Where did you fly, what and when? Let us know.

Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

Autocollimator wrote:
Subject: The Most Beautiful Thing Ever
From: George Shirley
Date: 10/26/03 5:59 AM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

Trump! My first child, born 12/28/1961.

George

Gordon wrote:

Porsche 550 Spyder with Halle Berry in the passenger seat, dressed
for the Oscars.

Beat that.


G



That is easy to beat. A Stinson stretcher bearer plane taking a
badly wounded aircrew member who can't be treated at the small
hospital on our airbase to a large hospital in London for care. Just
watch the Stinson lift off with one of your aircrew in the stretcher,
clear the pattern and head for London to save the life of one of our
own. That is true beauty.

Which part was beautiful assuming the correct use of the word, as in
visually only and not 'heart-warming' ?

Richard.

Piper Cub.

all the best -- Dan Ford
email: www.danford.net/letters.htm#9

see the Warbird's Forum at www.warbirdforum.com
and the Piper Cub Forum at www.pipercubforum.com

Does the Piper Cub and all of its avatars compete for being the most
beautiful thing ever ?
It's a legend and it's wonderful to fly (and a bit nasty to land), but I
wouldn't say it's beautiful !

Piper Cub.

Subject: The Most Beautiful Thing Ever
From: "Yann D"
Date: 10/26/03 4:42 AM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

Does the Piper Cub and all of its avatars compete for being the most
beautiful thing ever ?
It's a legend and it's wonderful to fly (and a bit nasty to land), but I
wouldn't say it's beautiful !

Piper Cub.



Cubs were beautiful because they were there.I think every American airbase had
one or more. They were used as "puddlejumpers" to run errands. When you had to
run down to a parts depot to pick up some small parts, you took the Cub. When
a couple of guys had a three day pass to Paris, you didn't take a B-26, you
hopped in the Cub. Unfortunately some hot shot fighter jocks borrowed one of
our Cubs one day and eneed up crashing into the Alps while trying to run the
tight passes through the Alpine gourges. Anybody can fly a cub except a
fighter pilot who thinks he is a lot better than he really is.I think for many
of us who flew in the war, Cubs will always be a fond memory. And that is
beautuful in it's own sense. So we can say Cubs are beautiful. But the most
beautiful of all is a B-26 Marauder coming home from the Ruhr Valley, war
weary,with one engine pouring oil, smoking and barely turning that crash landed
so badly damaged it had to be junked. It's beautiful because it it brought its
entire crew home safely And that is true beauty,


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

"Yann D" wrote:
Cub Driver wrote:

Piper Cub.

Does the Piper Cub and all of its avatars compete for being the most
beautiful thing ever ?
It's a legend and it's wonderful to fly (and a bit nasty to land), but I
wouldn't say it's beautiful !

Nothing beats a military jet fighter and it really doesn't matter
which type because they're all extremely beautiful machines.
But the problem is that only a small fraction of the human race
actually gets to fly a fighter. Even then, all good things must come
to an end and before they know it, the lucky *******s must
join the rest of us lowly humans stuck down here on terra firma.

Thus, when it comes to flying machines, I have to agree with Cub
Driver and in my view the "most beautiful thing ever" is whatever
I myself happens to be flying at the time!

Granted, a Cub (or in my case, a Trike) is nowhere near as impressive
looking as that neato warbird or the Concorde you see parked on the
ramp at some big fancy airshow. But Cubs, Trikes and other affordable,
fun little airplanes weren't designed for spectators and wannabes to
drool over while standing around with cameras in hand, wearing
sunglasses and lip balm to protect their noses from the hot sun.

Cubs, Trikes,T-Crafts, Luscombes, Lancairs etc. were designed for
active participants who wish to engage in some SERIOUS recreation.
Afterall, if you ain't flying it yourself, who gives a rat's ass about
that multi-million dollar F-16 screaming by overhead?

Now please excuse me...gotta' fly!

Mike Wrote;
Nothing beats a military jet fighter and it really doesn't matter
which type because they're all extremely beautiful machines.

Not taking anything away from the jets, but from a beauty standpoint, nothing
today can come close to the British Spitfire or the P-51D, and while I've only
seen one in my life, I'd have to put old Art's Marauder in my top 5.

Jim
SAC Cop
78-88

"Grantland" wrote in message
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Is it Concorde? Or is it the Lamborghini Countach? The F-16? F-23?


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